Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Abundant and widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: Mid May-Aug.

Forewing: 10mm.

Foodplant: Various grasses.

IMPORTANT - Please note that the maps and accounts are provisional, subject to change and further update. The whole dataset still needs to go through the final verification process and it is likely that a very small number of records will not satisfy the present requirements and there are other records that have not been formally submitted. The information is for guidance only.

Record breakdown:

	VC9	VC11	Region
Year first recorded	1877	1993	1877
Year last recorded	2010	2010	2010
Number of records	1137	571	3416
Number of individuals	13347	2597	31888
Unique positions	476	55	1062
Unique locations	334	36	740
Adult records	1080	563	3286
Immature records	0	0	0

For the region, we have a total of 3416 records from 740 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1877.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: An abundant species wherever grass grows in Britain, the larva feeding at the base of the culms of grasses (Poaceae). In Dorset, the moth is frequent in most situations and rises to abundant on unimproved grassland, irrespective of soil type. The moth has a prolonged flight period between late May and late August.

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